Dobbin v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Phillips County, m Mquity Hon. Ciiaklks W. Adams, Circuit Judge. The appellees bad. a complete remedy at law. The husband was liable. When the writing obligatory was executed, Mrs. Dobbin, had full power and authority to do it. It was expressly reserved to her by the contract with ber former husband, Fillow.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Phillips County, m Mquity Hon. Ciiaklks W. Adams, Circuit Judge. The appellees bad. a complete remedy at law. The husband was liable. When the writing obligatory was executed, Mrs. Dobbin, had full power and authority to do it. It was expressly reserved to her by the contract with ber former husband, Fillow. During her widowhood, she might have been sued at law; and after her marriage with Dobbin, lie became liable for all lier debts then existing. There is nothing in the agreement between them, exempting him from liability for such or after contracted debts.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice ENGlisii
This was a bill filed by John M. Hubbard, in the Phillips Circuit Court, against Wilson D. Dobbin and -wife, Levisa, to enforce the payment of a debt out of the separate property of the latter. The case made by the bill is as follows:
That on the 12th of December, 1850, the defendant, Levisa, of Phillips county, Arkansas, and Napoleon B. Pillow, of Memphis, Tennessee, being about to intermarry, executed a marriage contract, with the view that the property owned by them respectively, might not be encumbered or charged, in consequence of the marriage, with any of the consequences incident…
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